Happy Birthday Gabe!!

I can't believe this cute boy is one year old today!! He has grown so big over the past year and brought so much joy to our lives. We love you Gabe!

Labor Day and Septemeber

I put these next two posts out of order. The one after this has all the updates. Here are some photos over Labor Day weekend and the rest of the month of September. We had some family come into town during Labory Day and enjoyed spending time with them. Gabe got to see his cousin that is his age that he hadn't seen since January. I don't know if he wasn't so sure about her at first. It was fun to watch them play together. Gabe also got to spend time with his other cousin Carter. I got to babysit them a few times during the month and we also celebrated my brother's birthday. Gabe and Carter

One happy babe!

Future Volunteers!! Carter loves the camera!

What a good looking family. Brad's birthday cake! Looks good huh?? Laura made it.

Cheese

Gabe walking.

Gabe's new tool bench. Our neighbors gave it to us. He loves it!

Like father like son!

HUGS!

playing

Gabe and Bailey with the grandparents.

First Tennessee game of the year.

Their favorite place in the house... top of the stairs.

The babes with Grandpa.

What's new??

I know it has been forever since I have given an update. Not to much new has happened around here. Joe stays very busy with school. When he is not at school he is building his sister’s house. Gabe and I enjoy spending time with him when we get the chance. Gabe is getting so big. He now has 8 teeth. He is walking everywhere and is can say a few words such as uh-oh. He loves to say that when he or anyone else drops something. He also says “thank-you” He likes to put stuff in out hand and says “thank-you.” It is not as clear as when he says uh-oh but it sounds so cute. He also can say “mama” and “da da” but he doesn’t say those too often.

Gabe loves to give kisses and also vacuum. Every time the laundry room door is open he runs in to go get or play with the vacuum. He is such a good baby and is very happy. I love his little laugh. It is fun being home with him. I cannot believe my little guy will be a year old in 2 weeks. This past week Gabe’s cousin, Bailey, came into town for a whole week. She is 11 days younger than Gabe. They got to see each other over Labor Day weekend. I don’t think Gabe was so sure about her. But this time he really enjoyed playing with her. Bailey loves Gabe; she follows him wherever he goes. They are so cute together. Here are some photos of them playing together. We really enjoyed getting to spend time with the family.

Gabe saying bye to Bailey

Cousin Carter, Bailey, and Gabe (They were looking at a cat)

Gabe loves to carry this ball in his mouth and walk around.

Our naked cowboy

Gabe and Daddy

Gabe

Gabe and his pumpkin

Gabe after his cookie

Bailey, Grandma Dean, Gabe

Playing... trying to take the necklace from each other

Riding the vacuum cleaner.

Gabe trying to give Bailey kisses

Trying to get a picture of them both looking.

Bailey following Gabe up the stairs. They love the stairs.

Happy Babe

My little helper:)

Count Gabeula and an Update

Gabe looks like a little vampire. Check out those teeth. You might have to click on the picture to see it bigger. Every time I see this smile I just have to laugh.

Well not too much has happened since my last post. At the end of July I had the opportunity to go to TN to visit with my parents. It was a lot of fun to spend time with them and to see my siblings new nieces and nephews and my Aunt who I hadn't seen in like 10 years. I only wish I would have taken more pictures. I really didn't take that many. WE are now back in Utah. I really enjoyed being able to stay home with Gabe this summer and spending time with Joe's sister's family. I will miss them! Well Joe loved his internship and learned so much. He just started school yesterday and its looking like he will have a busy semester. I am still trying to get unpacked and situated. We are all doing well!

Birthday and July 4th

I had my birthday on the 29th of June. I had a wonderful day. I took Gabe to swim class then late on that day went swimming with him and my nieces and nephews. Gabe loves to swim and gets very excited about being in the water. Anyways… If you didn’t know yet, we are staying with Joe’s sister for the summer while Joe is doing his internship. Her whole family made sure I had a great birthday. I got presents and cards from the kids. They also made me a birthday poster. They even wanted to watch a movie with me and they told me to pick it because it was my birthday. One of her little boys even helped me make my bed. He said, “Aunt Lindsey, do you want me to help you make the bed.” I replied with, “sure.” He then went on to say that he needed to help me with that because it was my birthday and needed to be nice to me. I wish you could hear him talk, it’s very cute and funny. Here a a few pictures from my birthday:

This is the poster that my nieces and nephews made for me. They sure are sweet and thoughtful that's for sure.

These flowers were given to me by my two nephews. They were very cute when they gave them to me.

This is my yummy birthday dinner. It was one of my favorite pasta dishes that I make. Joe and his sister made it for me!

The delicious ice cream cake that his sister made. Oh it was yummy!!

Here is one of my gifts I got. I only hope it looks as good on me:)

I got a gift certificate to get a pedicure. Here are the results.

Here is my ginormous diaper bag that I got. I am still getting used to carrying it. It is nice though to have lots of room to put stuff in where it's not too crowded.

Here are a few extra pictures from the fourth of July. We decided that we would just spend the day together as a family. We didn’t do too much. While Gabe took his nap, Joe and I watched a movie and then we went swimming. If you can’t tell, Yes Gabe did get another haircut. It was growing so fast that we decided to cut it again. Well we used the clippers and used the biggest number that his sister had which turned out to be a four. When I went over it I took one look and said OH NO! Joe told me I had to go ahead with it and that it was too late. So my little boy now has a buzz cut. I have gotten a bit more used to it. I didn’t like it at first.

Some friends of ours gave us this float. Gabe loves it!!

Daddy and Gabe swimming

Here is the buzz head!

Just a little update, Gabe is now crawling/scooting already trying to get into everything. He has been getting pretty fast especially if the computer is anywhere in site! He has 2 new teeth that make him look like a vampire. I don’t know where his two top front teeth went but maybe they will come sometime soon.

So here are a shot of his teeth. Sorry about the snotty nose. He has been sick. This is the only way I could get a shot of his teeth is by making him laugh. It took a while. He gets very mad at me when I try to open his mouth with my hand to take a picture.

This is a picture I got of him while I was trying to get a shot of his teeth. No luck but it is a cute one.

A picture of Gabe crawling to get the camera

Joe was trying to put Gabe to bed. He was watching TV and Gabe kept looking at me smiling so I just got the camera and took a picture.